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Arg this article is wrong. TrueType was FREELY licensed. You could use TrueType fonts in Windows 3.1. (I know, I was there.) What Apple didn't license was the

by tkone 3y ago

Arg this article is wrong. TrueType was FREELY licensed. You could use TrueType fonts in Windows 3.1. (I know, I was there.) What Apple didn't license was their Advanced Type Tech (Quickdraw GX?) which allowed for further refinements to glyph positioning.

CharlesW 3y ago
As a postscript (see what I did there?), Apple did eventually donate a bunch of QuickDraw GX tech/innovations to OpenType.
mrgoldenbrown 3y ago
Thank you for this clarification, I was scratching my head at this, wondering if I had misremembered my entire childhood desktop publishing experience. IIRC the relative openness of TrueType encouraged/forced Adobe to open up their previously proprietary Type 1 fonts.